The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (2369 page)

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Sulaim
n (the Magnificent), al-Q
n
n
(
‘the law-giver’
,
1494–1566 (AH 900–74)).
Ottoman caliph (
khal
fa
) who led the empire to its highest points of achievement. Committed to good administration, he issued in 1530 (AH 937) the K
n
nn
meh, a corpus of law to bring greater uniformity to the immense empire. He initiated public buildings and municipal works, encouraging the great architect S
n
n (1488–1587 (AH 895–996)), who built many of the best-known
mosques
in Istanbul and Turkey, and rebuilt the Great Mosque in
Mecca
.
Sul
k
(Arab., ‘journey’). Among the
S
f
s
, the mystic's progress on the way to God. It is a deliberate quest, beginning with one's initiation into a S
f
order, followed, under the guidance of a
shaikh
, by the methodical purification of the self through stages or stations (
maq
mat
). The S
f
orders have their own individual programmes of stations for the s
lik, the one who pursues this journey.

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